Thank You

Intersections would like to give a warm Thank You to the 4000 people (artists and audiences) that participated in this ground breaking festival. The Atlas Performing Arts center was filled with artists of different disciplines and audiences of different backgrounds. It was a beautiful, inspiring sight to behold and none of it could've been possible without all of you. Congratulations to all the performers and a special thank you to the Festival Staff and Coordinators.

Stay tuned for next year's festival. Get the word out, share your stories and we'll see you at the Atlas again soon. Same time, same place.

Until then.

Moving Art with Kevin Reese

"I must say, I am so excited about this festival. It's an incredible honor to be a part of something that brings so many different artists, cultures and disciplines together in one creative extravaganza.

Although I won't be performing on a stage, I'll be in the lobby on March 5th from 2 to 5, creating spontaneous mobiles with whoever walks by. Each person will be given a piece of colored card stock that they can cut into any shape that they want. Then they'll write on the piece their own answer to the question, "what are you an intersection of?" I'll add each piece to the mobile and we'll see where it goes. I really enjoy creating these mobiles because you never know how they're going to look. The finished product is always great, but it's the process that I enjoy more than anything.

I hope to see you all there!" --Kevin Reese
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Balancing at the Intersection with mobile artist Kevin Reese
Participate in the creation of a moving piece of art! Make one of the many pieces that will come together to balance in a high-flying mobile built on-site at the festival. Mobile artist Kevin Reese, founder of SchoolSculptures, works with communities across the United States to envision, design and install playful visual celebrations of many parts becoming one beautiful whole. All ages are welcome to be a part of his unique INTERSECTIONS creation.
Saturday, Mar 6
2:00 - 5:00 PM
Lobby
FREE

www.schoolsculptures.com

D.C. Bluegrass? Yep, that's right!

The Extension Agents

Jacqueline Lawton: What type of artist are you?
Extension Agents: We are a bluegrass band from DC.

JL: Where were you born? How did you end up where you are now?
EA: We were born in the living room of Amanda's urban farmstead in southeast DC a year and a half ago. We grew up playing at farmer's markets, coffee shops, bars, and hootinannies.

JL: List five words that describe your personality.
EA: Banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass, guitar.

JL: How do you feel your performance fits into the festival?
EA: We are hoping to have some listeners who haven't heard bluegrass before and wouldn't imagine people play it in DC.

JL: Finish this sentence: I am an intersection of...
EA: strings and fingers.
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Extension Agents
Get your feet tapping to Bluegrass tunes both classic and eclectic with this popular Atlas District Band who’ll be warming up our Café before Tom Chapin.
Sunday, Mar 7 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Kogod Lobby
Free

Enjoy some down-home picking with The Extension Agents, DC’s own bluegrass band. With fiddle, banjo, bass, mandolin, and guitar they are sure to get you tapping your feet to tunes both classic and eclectic. Sit a spell in our Café and take in these Atlas District regulars who host a hoe-down every other Thursday at Sova Espresso and Wine bar.

http://www.myspace.com/extensionagents

A New Dawn with Imani

Imani
New Dawn, a world music voyage with an exquisite DC-based jazz singer and her trio dubbed by the Washington Post as “the answer to jazz fans’ prayers.”
Saturday, Mar 6 at 7:30pm
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $15
For audiences of all ages.

Sooth your soul with the sounds of Imani, who has been hailed as “an espresso-voiced song-weaver of rich, earthy texture and stunning vibrancy.” Relax into the groove of this DC-based favorite who has charmed audiences at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Curaçao Jazz Festival, San Antonio Jazz Festival and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Sink into songs from the golden age of jazz, original compositions, reinterpretations of well-loved standards and contemporary pop classics. Imani and her trio create a warm energy that captivates and connects with all audiences.

http://www.zanganomusic.com/

David Emerson Toney's Elysian Fields

David Emerson Toney & Chris Youstra MusicalCome hear Act One of Elysian Fields, a vibrant new Toney-Youstra musical collaboration that resets Shakespeare’s King Lear in the deep South. Jennifer L. Nelson directs this star studded cast.
Sunday, Mar 7 at 7:30 PM
LAB 1
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 13 and up.

Be the first to experience the compelling words of playwright David Emerson Toney and the haunting music of composer Chris Youstra in a word premier reading of Act One of Elysian Fields. Actor/singers will bring to life the story an old freed black slave in the Civil-War-Era South who, after a windfall, divides his property among his children. Inspired by Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, King Lear, this musical asks: "When can we no longer blame the world around us for our own shortcomings?" The audience will be invited to share their responses to this powerful new work in a post-reading talk-back. The Atlas is proud to welcome back the playwright-composer team who created its opening production, Coming Home.

Cast
Keith Brown
Desire Dubose
James Johnson
Omoro Omoighe
Erika Rose
Aaron Reader
Kenyatta Rogers
Jefferson A. Russell
Frederick Strother
Addison Switzer
Nick Vaughn
Craig Wallace
Brandon White
Lance Coadie Williams
and more...

FeStIvAl cLoSiNg PaRtY! Sidwell Friends Jazz Ensemble

An Interview with Taylor Richard of Sidwell Upper School Jazz Ensemble
Jacqueline Lawton: What type of artist are you?
Taylor Richard: I am a jazz drummer.

JL: Where were you born? How did you end up where you are now?
TR: I was born in DC, but I've lived in Arlington my whole life.

JL: If you could be an animal, what would you be and why?
TR: I would be a sloth, because I love relaxing.

JL: If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?
TR: If I could be anywhere in the world right now, I would be in San Francisco.

JL: List five words that describe your personality.
TR: Mellow, dorky, generous, gentle, and irreverent.

JL: What is your favorite quote?
TR: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

JL: What is the best advice you have to give?
TR: Once you find what you want to do, don't stop doing it.

JL: How do you feel your performance fits into the festival?
TR: Jazz is a perfect form of expression; it fits in just about anywhere.

JL: Finish this sentence: I am an intersection of...
TR: I am an intersection of science and soul.
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Festival Closing Party
Come raise a glass and move your feet to celebrate three weekends of boundary-breaking arts at INTERSECTIONS. Music by Sidwell Friends Upper School Jazz Ensemble students.
Sunday, Mar 7 at 8:30 PM
Sprenger Theatre
Tickets: $20 (includes hors d'oeuvres and one drink at a cash bar.)

Click HERE to buy tickets!

Three-time Grammy Winner, Tom Chapin

An Interview
Jacqueline Lawton: What type of artist are you?
Tom Chapin: I am a singer/songwriter, an acoustic musician who plays guitar, banjo, autoharp, mandolin and didgeridoo.

JL: Who are your heroes?
TC: In no particular order: Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Nelson Mandela, Louis Armstrong, Bonnie Raitt, my two artistic grandfathers and the incredibly strong, wise, resilient, loving women in my family.

JL: Finish this sentence: I am an intersection...
TC: musical styles, performance art, writing genres, and have spent my personal and professional life learning how to collaborate.
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Tom Chapin: In Concert
In Concert, a concert with this legendary folk singer celebrating the intersection of music and social change.
Sunday, Mar 7 at 7pm
Lang Theater
Tickets: $20
For audiences ages 8 and up.

Dubbed “one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music” by the New York Times, Tom Chapin is a beloved singer-songwriter, storyteller and multi-instrumentalist whose music spans styles and generations. A three-time Grammy winner, Tom has entertained and enlightened audiences of all ages for more than thirty years with life-affirming original songs told in a sophisticated array of musical styles.

www.tomchapin.com

Symphony Space: Selected Shorts!

Symphony Space
Selected Shorts, a rich selection of short stories in performance by Broadway and Hollywood actors, produced by the popular New York City venue Symphony Space and featured on public radio around the country tours to the Atlas. Starring actors Joe Morton (City of Hope, Eureka) and Selected Shorts host Isaiah Sheffer.
Saturday, Mar 6 at 5pm
Lang Theater
Tickets: $20
For audiences ages 14 and up.

Experience how short stories take on a new life when performed by stars of the stage and screen. Join Selected Shorts Host Isaiah Sheffer for an all-star presentation and discussion of novelist and satirist Percival Everett’s story, "The Appropriation of Cultures.” The story chronicles the adventures of a young black musician who embraces the racially charged symbols meant to degrade him and turns them back on his would-be tormentors.

www.symphonyspace.org/shorts

Glorystar Childrens Chorus

Children's Chorus of Washington with Glorystar Children's Chorus
Together We Sing, a cultural intersection of two outstanding youth choruses, each launching international tours.
Saturday, Mar 6 at 2:00 PM
Lang Theater
Tickets: $10 student (ages 12 and under) / $20 adult
For audiences ages 6 and up.

Children’s Chorus of Washington
Chamber Ensemble
Joan Gregoryk, Conductor
Donald Cotton, Accompanist
Precious Achikeh
Alex Baker
Maddy Baker
David Ball
Grace Becker
Lucy Chin
Shoshanna Erlich
Isabel George
Amanda Hastings
Milvia Herrera
Micheila Jacobson
Emily Janes
Conor Kelly
Schuyler Krogh
Erin McFarland
Sasha McGee
Morgan McNair
Theresa Nakamura
Erin O’Brien
Nadia Olaciregui
Teresa Paterson
Hannah Pepus
Morgan Powell
Celeste Saddler
Andrew Skinner
Ben Skinner

Glorystar Children’s Chorus
Chamber Choir
Cherie Jeng, Conductor
Karen Jeng, Accompanist
Alice Chang
Simon Cheng
Stephen Chen
Cynthia Chiang
Jeffrey Chien
Esther Ho
Jason Hsiao
Nathan Hsieh
Ariel Hsu
Timothy Hsu
Alex Huang
Andrew Huang
Alina Hwang
Philbert Hwang
Leah Jacobs
Christopher Jou
Matthew Kannan
Maureen Kuo
Roslyn Lee
Samuel Lin
Chelsea Lo
Charlene Tai
Dennis Ting
Libby Wei
Joshua Tseng
Ross Tsiomeuko
Galene Wong
Helena Wu
Yu-Chia Wu
Andrea Yang
Jeffrey Yang
Stephanie Yang
Joseph Yu
Kathleen Yu

http://www.childrenschorus.com/
http://www.glorystar.org/

This Sunday: Vertical Voices Playback Theatre

"The fact that someone is interested in what today's youth have to say is important. Vertical Voices Playback Theatre is a forum for audiences to learn about themselves and their community. I look forward to seeing what kind of community will be formed by those attending the festival.

The company members of Vertical Voices Playback Theatre capture the essence of someone's personal story quickly and concisely. Despite their age, these company members have the knack to accurately reflect the feelings of young children to older adults - a nice meeting place, or intersection, for folks to learn about one another." --Tim Reagan
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Vertical Voices Playback Theatre
Intersect: Let Your Life Speak, an interactive performance created by DC’s Sidwell Friends School performers probing the festival theme.
Sunday, Feb 28 at 4:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5
For audiences ages 5 and up.

Click HERE for tickets!

Prep School Negro

The Prep School Negro, a film that takes a poignant and unapologetic look at the life of a young man who, through a scholarship, moved from poverty to prep school, followed by a discussion from students from DC independent schools.
Friday, Mar 5 at 5:00 PM
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $20 Adults, $5 Students
For audiences ages 12 and up.

The Prep School Negro
Step into the shoes of André Robert Lee who grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia. At 14, André received what his family believed to be a golden ticket - a full scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. Elite education was Andre's way up and out, but at what price? In this dynamic new film, filmmaker André Robert Lee takes a journey back in time to revisit the events of his adolescence while also spending time with current day prep school students of color and their classmates to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower. Following a Q&A with the director André Robert Lee, join students from DC independent schools in a response to the film, organized by Edmund Burke School.

Click HERE for tickets!
http://www.eburke.org/


View the trailer at:
http://www.theprepschoolnegro.org/

Word-Beat, Don't Miss it

Word-Beat
The Legacy of Langston, a multi-disciplinary salute to Langston Hughes, featuring popular collaborators singer/actor Charles Williams and percussionist/composer Tom Teasley.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 7:30 PM
Lab II
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 11 and up.

www.word-beat.com

To buy tickets, click HERE

Let the Voices be Heard

An Interview with Holly Bass and Benny Blaq

"Poetry is an act of democracy, an expression of the First Amendment, a way to speak that transcends borders and barriers. I’m proud to be able to host a spoken word event that will include poets of different backgrounds and experiences-- black, white, brown, gay, straight, foreign and American-born."
--Holly Bass
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Voices from Busboys and Poets
The City in Words, a night at the mic when resident poets Holly Bass and Benny Blaq of the popular Busboys and Poets restaurant host a dynamic evening of spoken word and open mic.
Sunday, Feb 28, at 7:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 15 and up.

To buy Tickets, click HERE

http://hollybass.com/

www.busboysandpoets.com

Come hear the world with Tom Teasley

Tom Teasley will be presenting both a hands on workshop as well as a solo performance at Intersections. In the workshop he will focus on various hand drum techniques from India, the Middle East and Africa. These will be combined with techniques that American jazz drummers use. This intersection creates an east meets west fusion of rhythms, hand technique and compositional ideas.

His solo performance will draw on these various traditions and combine them with the magic of digital technology. Using digital looping he will create virtual ensembles that defy time and space. He has presented this material at Eastman School of Music, three PASIC conventions and throughout the U.S.,Europe and Middle East where he just returned from performing and teaching. Tom is the recipient of three time Fulbright-Hayes awards, Young Audiences Artist of the Year award, Kennedy Center Artist In Residence and recently was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for outstanding sound design.

Reviews of Tom’s work:
"The evening's dazzler..." -- The Washington Post

"No Instrument has a limitation for him" -- Modern Drummer Magazine

"Fusions between American and Eastern schools are old news, yet seldom has any percussionist drawn so deeply from both wells and come up with a blend as bewitching and original as this." -- Drum! Magazine

"Latin, Brazilian, and Middle Eastern flavors abound, yet they're blended in such a way that the resulting dish hits the palate as wonderfully different, toying with each composer's original recipe to great effect."-- Jazziz Magazine

" ... a highly imaginative conceptualist... a colorful, intellectual musician, employing his talents in the orchestration of sound... ingeniously deploys unusual uses of unusual percussion... unlimited talents. " -- Allaboutjazz.com

Check out the Videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqCnppWWEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9av45o9X0BQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83oFMGnR5Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjdoXU5mO8

For more info, visit http://www.tomteasley.com/

Washington Performing Arts

An Interview with Brandon Felder, Director for the WPAS Children of the Gospel Choir

Jacqueline Lawton: What type of artist are you?
Brandon Felder: Musician, Vocal Director, Music Educator

JL: Where were you born? How did you end up where you are now?
BF: Buffalo New York. I got here through School, Practice, and hard work

JL: List five words that describe your personality.
BF: Geniuine, Commited, Humble, Humourous, Risk-Taker

JL: What do you think will be cool about the festival?
BF: The exchanging of ideas and collaboration with other individuals that may or may not have similar backgrounds. And for that reason alone, this experience will truly be an intersection!
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Washington Performing Arts Society

Summer Academy Live! WPAS presents a concert of their up and coming youth performers in Children of the Gospel, the Capital Jazz Project and Summer Steps with Step Afrika!
Saturday, Feb 27 at 2pm
Lang Theater
Tickets: $5
For audiences of all ages.

www.wpas.org

Voices of Now, Arena's Top Youth Ensemble

Voices of Now
Encounter, a musically poetic look at young peoples' lives devised and performed by Arena's top youth ensemble.
Sunday, Feb 28 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, Mar 7 at 2:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5
For audiences ages 11 and up.

http://www.arenastage.org/

Og Ceol this Saturday!

Og Ceol with Oran Sandel and Tom Teasley
Two Café Concerts featuring a duo of young traditional Irish Musicians intersecting with guitarist Oran Sandel on eclectic acoustic sets. Look for world percussionist Tom Teasley to sit in, too. Og Ceol with Oran Sandel
Saturday, Feb 27 at 4:00 PM & at 6:00 PM
Kogod Lobby
Free
For all ages
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" Be able to say “I knew them when” after delighting to the traditional Irish tunes of Og Ceol, a duo of teen musicians – fiddler Jamie Sandel and Irish flute and whistle player Malinda Reese. Intersecting with folk guitarist Oran Sandel, Og Ceol will share the tunes they’ve learned at the knee of players in both Ireland and the US, but with a distinctive, contemporary twist. Other festival musicians, including percussionist Tom Teasley, will sit in on this lively session, too. Enjoy a unique festival collaboration of musicians of diverse ages, traditions and styles."

To buy tickets click HERE!

Music Meets Film on Sunday: Carmen

Three musicians of extraordinary skill and international renown join forces to salute the romance and beauty of Carmen in an exquisite prelude to Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s stunning resetting Bizet’s opera.

Soprano Anastasia L. Robinson; Versatile tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs; and Venezuelan-born pianist Carlos César Rodríguez, will present a program of selections from Carmen and Zarzuela as well as the Carmen Fantasie. Saura’s Carmen (1983) spins a story with passionate dance as a Flamenco company reinterprets the opera as the choreographer (Antonio Gades) and his alluring leading lady (Laura del Sol) fall in love. Enjoy a night at the opera like never before!

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Music Meets Film: CARMEN at the Intersection
Inspired serenade by soprano Anastasia Robinson, tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs and virtuoso pianist Carlos César Rodriguez paired with a screening of Carlos Sauro's film that resets the world's most famous opera in the passionate world of flamenco dance.

Sunday, Feb 28 at 5:00 PM
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $15
For ages 12+

Try Your Hand with Adair and Ahiagble

Artisans at the Intersection
Interact with two artisans, William Adair and Chapuchi Bobbo Ahiagble, in projects inspired by the Atlas’ Art Deco style – an internationally renowned gilder-conservator and a master weaver from Ghana.

Interactive Demonstrations
Saturday, February 27 from 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 28 from 1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Kogod Lobby & Cafritz Promenade

Workshop: Try Your Hand at Gilding
Saturday, Feb 27 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Lab 1
Free
For all ages

For more info, CLICK HERE
http://www.goldleafstudios.com/

Fall in Love with Lulu Fall

"This project is about self-love and self-exploration. I find that generally, people tend to keep themselves in a box, especially when listening to music. I try to use my music as a vehicle to allow this self-exploration to happen. It's about airing your dirty laundry and releasing those skeletons from you closet. The music I'm performing at Intersections touches on things that humans, especially young women like me, experience everyday, but are afraid to reveal in everyday conversation. Things like self-esteem and loss of identity, lust, heartbreak, fear, abortion, things like that. Embrace your strenghts, fears, and fantasies everybody!!" --Lulu Fall

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Lulu Fall
Two Cafe Concerts by a dynamic new Senegalese-Cameroonian-American vocalist and her guitarist Andy Fahs.
Saturday, Feb 20 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, Mar 5 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Lobby
FREE

Video link ('Senegal' debut video) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJH_hcYxbc_hcYxbc
www.myspace.com/lulufall

Don't Miss Christylez in Action

"I call myself a Progressive Hip-Hop Artist, mixing traditional elements of Hip-Hop, like Human-Beatboxing & Rhyming, with World-Music instrumentation. I wanted to take-on this project with Patrick Crowley to merge my Hip-Hop Concert with his Theater Expertise, to create a totally new experience for myself and others. The music itself will merge Hip-Hop, Classical, Jazz, & World Music, and the production as a whole merges Hip-Hop concert with Theater." --Christylez Bacon

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In Pursuit of Me: The Story of Christylez Bacon, a world premier merging of music and theatre by one of Washington hip-hop's rising stars.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 9:30 PM
Friday, Mar 5 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, Mar 6 at 9:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $15
For audiences ages 13 and up.

Family Performance:
Saturday, Feb 20 at 1:30 PM
Lobby
Tickets: FREE

Dance Party:
Saturday, Mar 6 at 11:00 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5

To Buy Tickets, click HERE.

http://www.christylez.com/
http://www.itsthebeatbox.com/

Get Your Blues on this Sunday

How I might have gotten to the Blues
Walter “Wale” Liniger, 2010

"I grew up with trains in my life: my grand-father and my father both were railroad engineers, driving trains for the Swiss railroad system. Our lives were ruled by train whistles and the odd hours of father’s work. As we didn’t have a car, connections with other people always seemed to start and end at a train station; that is where we said “hello” and “good-bye.”
Blues is a story of amorphous content. I believe that most of us will experience moments of the blues, and yet we find ourselves quite often at a loss when invited to explain. Music and other artistic expressions help us give voice to such moments. "The blues are not about anything new. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard,” wrote James Baldwin.

In my life the blues are always connected to trains, and vice versa. Trains carried me to the warmth of my grandmother’s kitchen and her stories, trains took my father’s time and mind. Trains are about arriving and leaving. Needless to say that when I heard my first old time blues-music, my body felt the underlying train rhythms and recognized that “huge something” that couldn’t be stopped. But my heart also embraced the emotions that rode on the whistles, boisterous in the day and lonesome at night.

Eventually life brought me to Mississippi and South Carolina where I hardly found any similarities with the tightly-stitched Swiss system I knew so well. Most of “my teachers of the blues” did not know where Switzerland was, and I had no clue how to deal with a mule. Trains once again connected our stories. Whilst their whistles sound very differently, trains on either side of the Atlantic are metaphors for motion, and with it metaphors for coming and going, for gain and loss.

I never became a railroad engineer, it required too much diligence, too much adherence to regulations. However, the young boy’s dream is still with me: it lives in my story’s breath and beat!" --Wale Liniger
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Blues Professor Wale Liniger
Take a unique journey into the blues with a Swiss-born artist who has made this distinctly American sound his own, weaving harmonica, guitar and voice into a rich musical tapestry. A celebrated artist featured in blues festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, this professor is a true believer in the creativity of the human mind when the heart is in trouble.

Sunday, Feb 28
6:00-7:30pm
Lobby
FREE!!!

This performance is sponsored by The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).
http://www.bluesprof.com/

Click the link below to watch a video of Blues Professor Wale Liniger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkVE0q0ocE

Breakin' Boundaries with DCypher Dance

"DCypher Dance focuses on developing new and innovative works of pure hip hop and fusion that are high energy, provocative, and “culture specific” for audiences of all ages and walks of life. DCypher Dance produces works that enrich and empower community through dances of understanding, tolerance, and celebration!" -- Natasha Hawkins
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DCypher Dance
DCypher 10.2: Co-Ed, A high-voltage hip-hop performance event by a boundary-breaking DC ensemble that will invite festival-goers to a new cultural crossroads -- step up and in!
Friday, Mar 5 at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $15
Sprenger Theater
For audiences ages 13 and up.

Dance Party:
Friday, Mar 5 at 11:00 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5

To Buy Tickets, click HERE.

For a six-week performance class leading to advanced participation in the show, go to: http://www.joyofmotion.org/

Join Jon and the Jay Walkers this Friday

"It promises to be a real celebration, an unleashing of creativity. My favorite album projects are the ones where a set group of players and singers are at the studio every day for a week or so. A touring company gets to explore a process that is seldom possible with one-off gigs and sessions. The circus bus pulls up, and all the clowns and acrobats come tumbling out to feel at home for a while. This is when magical things happen."
-- Jon Carroll

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Jon Carroll and the Jay Walkers
Jay Walkers at the Intersection, a concert explosion of stylistic connections among Grammy-winner Jon Carroll's signature pop and R & B, Nigerian artist Tosin Aribisala's jazz and Michael Shereikis' Afro-Funk.
Friday, Feb 26 at 7:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $15
For audiences of all ages.

Dance Party:
Saturday, Feb 27 at 11:00 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5

Workshop:
Saturday, Feb 27 at 5:00 PM
Lab I
Tickets: FREE

http://www.joncarroll.org/
http://www.tosinmusik.com/

Words Collide with The Folger

The Folger Shakespeare Library
When Words Collide, a poetic response to life in today's America by professional and student writers, including poets Kim Roberts and Sami Miranda.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 5:00 PM
The Loft
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 10 and up.
www.folger.edu/poetry

To Buy tickets, click HERE.

Delta Players & NE Senior Singers

Northeast Senior Singers and Delta Players
Come and hear, "Freedom Journey,"a performance of songs and stories by H Street community elders, highlighted by selections from a stellar 20th century intersection-- Porgy and Bess.
They will perform a variety of well loved popular, spiritual and original songs, including Old Ship of Zion, Duke Ellington’s Compensation, a combination of Precious Lord, along with You’ve Got a Friend. Perhaps one of the most exciting selections will be Lord, Let Me Be a Light, composed by the group’s pianist, Michael Terry.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 4:30 PM
Lab II
Tickets: $5
For ages 8+
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The Delta Players is a readers' theatre group consisting of older Americans, ranging in age from 55+ to 96 years young. The Players have been in existence for over 3 years under the direction of Charles H. Clyburn, a professional actor/director. Most of the group resides in the Delta Towers building on Florida Avenue in the H Street corridor. The piece to be performed for INTERSECTIONS is entitled "Freedom Journey" and is a compilation of stories, poems, and songs which takes us on a journey from the days of slavery to the election of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Northeast Senior Singers
Founded in Fall, 2002, the Northeast Senior Singers is a vibrant chorale made up of dedicated members living at Delta Towers, Capitol Hill Towers, and the broader H Street and Capitol Hill communities. Since its inception, the group has been the subject of a feature article in the Senior Beacon and has had the opportunity to perform on Capitol Hill with Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock in an effort raise awareness of the need of funding arts programs for older Americans. The group performs regularly at Delta Towers, Levine School of Music and the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The Northeast Senior Singers rehearse weekly at Delta Towers under the direction of Charles Williams, their director since 2004, and Michael Terry, accompanist. The Northeast Senior Singers have been generously sponsored by Paul Sprenger, Jane Lang, and the Atlas Arts Access Fund since 2002.

Click HERE to watch a video clip.

Click HERE to buy tickets.

It get's Sticky this Friday

Sticky Mulligan
Sink into the soulfulness of "the most exciting new artist on the scene" (Baltimore City Paper) . Sticky Mulligan is an Irish-American soul singer and multi-instrumentalist who just released his debut album, "Showtime," filled with soulful grooves and beautiful melodies that draw from Celtic, jazz and funk fluences. Relax in the festival café with this intriguing intersection of musical styles.
www.cdbaby.com/cd/stickymulligan
Friday, February 26
6:30 - 8:00 PM
10:30 - 11:30 PM
Lobby
FREE

"I am bringing Irish lineage, and ethno-music influences together with a little bit of soul on the side." -- Joe “Sticky Mulligan” Smith

CLICK HERE to Watch a video of Joe "Sticky Mulligan" Smith.

Great Opening Weekend!

Thanks to everyone for coming out to support the first weekend of Intersections. You might've missed the first weekend, but you still have a chance to catch some ground breaking, barrier shaking, culture colliding work.

Is anyone out there guilty of making a mental note about something they want to do and then totally forgetting about it? You say to yourself, "That looks like fun, I have to check that out!" Then you look at your calendar again and realize that the event has passed, and not only did you miss it, but you missed it by a month! Don't let Intersections be that for you. Get out of your house, get in your car, take the metro and spend a weekend with us. You don't have to spend the whole weekend with us. Go jogging first, then top it off with an amazing cultural experience, the likes of which D.C. has never seen. I'm being grandiose, but I'm serious. I guarantee you'll be glad you came.

Erika Rose
Festival Programming Committee

The Washinton Informer Features Intersections

“Intersections: A New America Arts Festival” at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
Arts & Entertainment
By Larry Saxton
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Southeast, D.C. native Christylez (r) performs in the arts extravaganza, Intersections: A New American Arts Festival, at the Atlas Theater. The performances fuse live music, dance and drama and run each weekend between Fri., Feb. 19, through Sun., March 7.Courtesy Photo
The Atlas Performing Arts Center in Northwest presents Intersections: A New American Arts Festival, a cornucopia of artistic creativity that promises to energize even the most winter-weary among us through music, theater, visual arts, film, poetry and dance.

The multi-disciplinary celebration of the arts which opens Fri., Feb. 19, will showcase events in six different venues each weekend through Sun., March 7.

The festival includes a world premiere by Washington hip-hop artist Christyles Bacon; performances of Scott Joplin’s opera “Treemonisha” by the Washington Savoyards; a documentary exploration of identity through drumming by Nigerian-American filmmaker, Ekene Okobi; songs and stories by H Street community elders known as The Northeast Senior Singers and the Delta Players; plus a play, “The Bridge of Bodies,” written and performed by Haitian-American, Kathleen Gonzales.

“If you think about it, people come to see a theater performance or hear music. You are taken to a new place when you come and experience an arts event emotionally and mentally. I think that creates an energy and opportunity for people to see one another in a new light, stand in each other’s shoes, and achieve new understandings,” said Mary Hall Surface, 51, the festival’s artistic director.

A new perspective is exactly what playwright Kathleen Gonzales, 34, hopes that Washington audiences walk away with after seeing her one-woman play about her beloved homeland recently devastated by a cataclysmic earthquake in January.

Her monologue, “The Bridge of Bodies,” she said, dispels myths and stereotypes about the people of Haiti. Proceeds from her performances will benefit Haitian earthquake relief efforts and recovery.

“As an artist I have always felt that it was my responsibility to help people who are not Haitian understand about Haiti, and what it is to be Haitian,” Gonzales said.

“For me, writing about Haiti is something that I am passionate about, something that I am moved by. In many instances the play wrote itself through me,” the artist said.
The vision for Intersections originated with Jane Lang, founder and chair of the Atlas Center’s board of directors. Lang said that she wanted to host a festival that would bring artists of different genres and audiences of different ages, races and cultures together.

That’s why she enlisted Surface, the award-winning playwright and director who lives in the District to pull the festival together. Once on board, Lang said that Surface jumped right in. Last summer, Surface put out calls to artists about the project. She received more than 80 proposals for the festival and narrowed them down to the 57 actual performances.

Surface has spent most of her artistic career creating art experiences that are inter-generational, events that both young people and adults are able to enjoy together.

“Being able to gather in a forum that the art provides lets us do something that is to wrestle with some things that might be harder to talk about in other circumstances.

But the arts give you a place where you can meet on common ground and most importantly you can imagine together,” Surface said.

Visit the Washington Informer to view the article.

Photo: Christylez (on right)

Intersections in The Washington Post Today!

Atlas Performing Arts Center stages diverse Intersections arts festival

The Washington Post
By Lavanya Ramanathan
Friday, February 19, 2010

The Atlas Performing Arts Center's new Intersections arts festival -- a three-week event with more than 50 performances beginning Friday at the H Street NE complex -- celebrates a nation characterized by myriad convergences of culture.

But for inspiration, the organizers had to look only so far as the Atlas District itself.

"H Street has historically been an intersection," says Mary Hall Surface, the festival's artistic director, citing the various communities -- Italian, Jewish, African American -- that have called the neighborhood east of Union Station home.

To stage the festival, which continues weekends through March 7, Surface and Atlas put out a call for shows that combine genres or cross the boundaries of race, age and class. The Washington Savoyards responded with "Treemonisha," a rarely performed opera by Scott Joplin; Speakeasy DC culled a diverse cast for the monologue show "Wetbacks, Aliens and Towelheads: Stories From the First Generation"; and Haitian American Kathleen Gonzales offered her one-woman show about homecomings, "The Bridge of Bodies," with a pledge to donate proceeds to Haiti relief efforts. There are also plenty of free concerts, children's performances and even visual art as part of the festival, of which The Post is a sponsor.

"You think about it as a menu," Surface says. "We really were looking for pieces that had an intersection of styles, or we were looking for collaborations, where companies were coming together in a way they have never done before.

"So you've got your fusion cuisine, then you've got your contrasting things -- ones that taste better when you put them together -- and your classic dishes."

To read the entire Washington Post article, Click HERE
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To read our article in The Washington Informer

SpeakeasyDC

SpeakeasyDC
Wetbacks, Aliens and Towelheads: Stories from the First Generation, Come hear humorous and edgy autobiographical offerings by DC's popular company of storytellers.Five artists tell true stories about being children of immigrant parents or immigrants themselves. In true SpeakeasyDC style, the stories are expertly crafted and combine humor, honesty, and insight to create an unforgettable night of riveting entertainment.
Friday, Feb 26 at 9:30 PM
Saturday, Feb 27 at 7:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $18.50
For audiences ages 16 and up.
Click HERE to buy tickets.
http://www.speakeasydc.org
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ABOUT THE STORIES AND STORYTELLERS

Poet Regie Cabico tells the story of trying to fulfill the American Dream for his Filipino mother in "My H'Oprah."

TV News Reporter Delia Perry tells her story about negotiating the New and Old World rules of her Cape Verdean parents in "Tough Love."

Activist Claire Nelson tells her story about changing her plans of becoming Jamaica's first female prime minister in "Counting Myself American."

Video artist and graphic designer Ayo Okunseinde tells his story about being a Nigerian transplant trying to be cool in suburban New Jersey high school in "International Day."

Comedian and solo performer, Vijai Nathan tells her story of trying to balance life as an Indian girl in Potomac, MD in "Beware."

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Get a feel for the Speakeasy. Watch Vijai Nathan's story.

All Our Neighbors, This Sunday

Rachel Grossman with Mitch Mattson
All our Neighbors, a hands-on experience for artists who work in schools focusing on classroom cultural awareness.
Sunday, Feb 21 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lab I
Registration: $10

"We believe the festival to be the perfect platform for a larger conversation about the relationships Teaching Artists, particularly white ones, have with the youth they interact with in area schools. We're both passionate about theatre and civic dialogue, and are on the look-out for more conversations about race and culture." -Rachel Grossman

http://www.intersectionsdc.org/

INTERSECTIONS: Opening Weekend Specials -- 24 hours only!

Start your festival engine and roar into INTERSECTIONS with $10 tickets to:
Jason Ignacio Garcia's, The Mountain (2/19 @ 7:30 PM)
Grabielismo Productions' Bemcha Latin Jazz Band (2/19 @ 9:30 PM)
Kathleen Gonzales's, The Bridge of Bodies (2/19 @ 7:30 PM & 2/20 @ 7:30 PM)
Use promo code: "READY"

For $15 adult/$10 student see Coyaba Dance Theater/Tappers With Attitude/Urban Artistry's, ORIGINS (2/20 @ 2PM & 2/21 @ 7 PM).
Use promo code: "SET"

For $20 (adult) see Washington Savoyard's, Treemonisha by Scott Joplin (2/20 @ 8 PM & 2/21 @ 2 PM shows only).
Use promo code: "GO"

Order on-line only by 6pm on Thursday, February 18th. http://www.intersectionsdc.org/

Race you ... to INTERSECTIONS!

The Sound of Ekene Okobi

The Sound of the Drums, a documentary exploration of identity through drumming by a first-generation Nigerian-American filmmaker, with special guest performers including choreographer and master of African Dance, Melvin Deal.
Sunday, Feb 21 at 5:00 PM
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $5
For ages 12+

http://www.ekeneokobi.com/

Click HERE to watch The Sound of the Drums trailer online.

Photos:

Top Right: Ekene's mother shows her how to tie a wrapper (pronounced "lappa").

Bottom Left: Footage recorded at a Return to Goree dance class in Baltimore, MD.

Capital City Symphony: It's More Than You Think

Capital City Symphony and the Young Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Classical Connections, a concert highlighting connections among diverse classical composers – including Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington native George Walker.
Sunday, Feb 21 at 4:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Ticket: $5 suggested donation
For audiences ages 5 and up.

"I hope to show that classical music is made up of more than just dead white guys. "
--Victoria Gau

http://www.capitalcitysymphony.org/
http://www.dcyop.org/

NY Times best-selling author, Steven Roberts

"I am a storyteller, and I focus on the people who had the heart and heroism to leave their home countries and make new lives in a new and often strange land.

I speak of my own grandfather, Abe Rogow, who stole money from his father to became an early pioneer in Israel and then settled in the working class town of Bayonne, N.J. I speak of my parents, who lived one block away from each other when they met on my mother's 17th birthday, but wrote letters to convey their feelings because they were too shy to talk in person. I speak of Pablo Romero, who dropped out of school in rural Mexico at age 11, came to America as a farm worker, and eventually became a doctor in Salinas CA where most of his patients are farm workers, the children and grandchildren of the immigrants he worked with in the fields years ago.

When I tell these stories, I hope to open a conversation with my audience. I hope you will be moved to celebrate the heroes in your own families who made the journey to America, and to gather and preserve their stories for generations to come."
--Steve Roberts

Politics and Prose Bookstore
From Every End of This Earth, a reading and book signing by the New York Times best-selling author, Steven Roberts, capturing the stories of thirteen immigrant families and their lives in the new America.
Saturday, Feb 20 at 5pm
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $5
For ages 14+

http://www.politics-prose.com/

Audiocasts:
Interview on WOR News Talk Radio
Interview on The Diane Rhem Show

TV Appearances:
Riz Kahn Interviews Steve Roberts
Politico.com Video Clip
This America Interview (Once there, scroll down page)

Book Review:
The Washington Post Reviews, From Every End of This Earth

The Reverb is Wild this Saturday!

Reverb
Harmony Crossing, an a cappella romp from gospel to “road-tunes” from DC’s Wammie-winning sextet.

Saturday, Feb 20 at 2:30 PM
Lab II
Tickets: $5
For audiences ages 5 and up

http://www.reverbmusic.com/

Hip Hop and Bollywood? Come see for yourself!

JOMDC’s Hip Hop, Bollywood Studio to Stage Performance Class will perform a piece choreographed by JOMDC faculty and DCypher Dance member, Nikki Gambhir at DCypher 10.2:Co-Ed.

Here is what Nikki had to say about her piece:

"The piece I’m presenting at Intersections is a fusion of Hip Hop and Bollywood dance set to music that remixes the more traditional Hindi and Punjabi sounds with American Hip Hop. The costumes reflect that intersection using flavors of India combined with Western styles while the movement comes from blending the signature moves of Bollywood with Hip Hop choreography.

I am an intersection of American & Indian culture. My father is from India and my mother is American. I’ve grown up enjoying the advantages of such a cultural mix, overcoming the challenges it sometimes presented and sincerely appreciating how it has made me who I am today. Dance is an innate part of Indian culture, at Indian celebrations everyone dances and kids are on the dance floor alongside their parents, aunts and uncles! I connected with Hip Hop because of its appeal through pop culture, I grew up with its influences through music and dance and I love its original messages of peace, love, unity and having fun!

I truly believe that the arts are an essential part of the community, of creating and maintaining us as people and I hope that my teaching and performing will help to promote positive and healthy expression through dance. The intersections of diverse dance styles and cultures, broadens understanding, speaks to a greater variety of people and heightens the enjoyment of the audience."

http://intersectionsdc.org/

Watch a compilation of our Adult and Youth Companies who you'll see at Intersections this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7MhDEBblc

A Message from Marva Hicks

"I have been blessed to be in on the ground floor of a production that was in it’s developmental stages. I was in CAROLINE OR CHANGE, by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori for a total of two and half years. That time period covered the workshops, the Off-Broadway run and the Broadway production. Talk about exciting! The work was hard, and the process was extremely informative.

I now find myself in the development of my own project and I must say, having experienced this process in the past, have made it easier for me. What will ultimately end up on the stage is an unknown factor. There are daily rewrites and other production aspects to consider in building a show. And you must stay on track with telling the story you want to tell. I love it! During the first workshop last month, that was held in the Drama Department of the Division of Fine Arts at Howard University, I had an amazing time. I looked forward to showing up at rehearsal everyday. And to return to my HU roots was energizing and so very special. The interaction with the staff and our production team was priceless. This journey as it turns out is now about more than developing a show to encourage others, but it has become a vehicle of inclusiveness that informs and continues to teach us all, about how special the world of theatre is." --Marva Hicks
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Arena Stage's Musical Artist Marva Hicks
An Evening with Marva: Celebrating the Gospel Truth, a rich musical journey through song with singer Marva Hicks from her gospel roots to Broadway and beyond.
Saturday, Feb 20 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, Feb 21 at 2:00 PM
Sunday, Feb 21 at 7:30 PM
Sprenger Theatre
Tickets: $25
For ages 13+

http://www.arenastage.org/

Photos:
Top Left--Marva Hicks
Bottom Right--Composer, E. Harper and Director, Denise Burse Fernandez

Don't miss Bemcha Latin Jazz Band

Bemcha is a Latin jazz ensemble that prides itself in both adding the feeling, rhythm and language of jazz to latin standards as well as in adding the latin and afro-cuban rhythms and feeling to jazz standards. The group is known for playing a variety of styles and for it's all star lineup of DC's finest.

Saturday 2/19 9:30pm
Sprenger Theatre
Tickets: $15 (Cash bar)
For ages 15+
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Ensemble Members:
Pablo Grabiel - Guitar
Duff Davis - Guitar
Josh Carr - Tenor Sax
Elijah Balbed - Alto Sax
Alvin Trask - Trumpet
Roderick Johnson - Drums
Mark Merella - Percussion
Justin Parrot - Bass

Bemcha video clips you shouldn't miss:
Mambo Influenciado - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1S8xrWZxs
My Little Suede Shoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoQvpz2RR2I

Check out these links:
www.grabielismo.com/bemcha
http://www.bemcha.net/
Facebook Page

Your "BodyMoves" This Saturday!

Dance Through the Decades, a lively journey through the history of black dance presented by this Maryland-based youth performance company.
Saturday, Feb 20 at 4:30 PM
Saturday, Feb 27 at 4:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $10
For audiences of all ages.

"This production depicts the history of black dance, its richness & culture; and pays tribute & homage to those who have paved the way for all people to be free to dance." --Katherine Smith
www.bodymovesfitness.com

Washington Savoyards

Treemonisha by Scott Joplin, an intersection of classical opera form and the ragtime genius in a new production of a rarely performed American treasure, presented by DC’s favorite light opera company.
Friday, Feb 19 at 8pm
Saturday, Feb 20 at 8pm
Sunday, Feb 21 at 2pm
Friday, Feb 26 at 8pm
Saturday, Feb 27 at 8pm
Sunday, Feb 28 at 2pm
Friday, Mar 5 at 8pm
Saturday, Mar 6 at 8pm
Sunday, Mar 7 at 2pm

Lang Theatre
Tickets: $40/Adult, $35/Senior, $15/Child, $10 Student rush
For audiences ages 8 and up.

Heralded as “an entirely new phase of musical art” when Scott Joplin played for its first performance in 1915, Treemonisha was rediscovered in the 1970s and went on to triumph on Broadway. Last seen in DC in 1976, the Washington Savoyards will present an all-new production of this “thoroughly American opera” for a new generation, under the direction of Michael J. Bobbitt. Set in late 19th century Arkansas, the opera follows Treemonisha, a young, educated African American woman, in her quest to free her community from fearful superstitions. A story filled with conjurers, capturers and the power of love rings out from a romantic, ragtime-inspired score. Embrace the opportunity to see this charming production by a giant of American music, Scott Joplin.

www.savoyards.org

Jason Garcia Ignacio / City Dance Ensemble

The Mountain, a dance fusion of east and west by an award-winning Filipino choreographer.
Friday, Feb 19 at 7:30pm
Sprenger Theatre
Tickets: $15
For audiences ages 14 and up.

Commissioned and premiered by the Kennedy Center, The Mountain is a choreographic intersection of art and science – of the traditional and the contemporary. This provocative work for fifteen dancers was envisioned and realized by Philippine-born choreographer, Jason Garcia Ignacio, winner of the 2009 Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist. A veteran of the American Repertory Ballet and the Martha Graham Ensemble, Mr. Ignacio fuses Filipino mythology with contemporary choreography to capture the 1998 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in Manila. Set to music inspired by the patterns in volcanic activity, The Mountain vividly explores our evolving relationship to the environment. The program will feature other works by Mr. Ignacio as well as an audience talk-back following the performance.

www.volcanodance.org

Coyaba Dance Theater, Tappers With Attitude & Urban Artistry

ORIGINS, a joyful collaboration among three top DC dance companies celebrating the heritage and soul of African American dance.
Saturday, Feb 20 at 2pm
Sunday, Feb 21 at 7pm
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $15 student / $20 adult
For audiences of all ages.

Joining forces for a one-of-a-kind dance celebration, three DC Dance companies will intersect their distinctive powerhouse styles to tell the story of African American dance. Take Coyaba Dance Theater’s high energy drumming and traditional West African dance. Add Tappers With Attitude’s sassy blend of popular percussive dance steps from the past. Mix with Urban Artistry’s hot funk, pop, lock and hip-hop. Season with Latin flavors, and you have a recipe for an unforgettable retrospective of the dance that defines America. Ideal for the whole family, this show will get you on your feet!
www.coyabadance.org
www.tapperswithattitude.org
www.urbanartistry.org

INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival

Program Notes

“Each of us is on our own journey. But as we travel, we reach crossroads—the points at which our journeys meet—launching the possibility that we will go in new directions as individuals, as a community, as a society.” Festival Curator, Mary Hall Surface

Welcome to the debut of “INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival” at The Atlas Performing Arts Center ("the Atlas"). This boundary-breaking festival showcases the power of the arts to cultivate understanding, to unite communities, and to honor the dignity of the human experience, while empowering the individual. INTERSECTIONS offers a rich and varied body of artistic styles. In addition to works of visual art, film screenings, literary readings, dance performances, musical showcases, and dramatic productions, INTERSECTIONS will also provide audiences with the opportunity to engage directly with the artistic process through workshops, discussions and informal performances.

With these unique performances and presentations, INTERSECTIONS not only delights, educates, and entertains, but it also asks us important questions about the America identity: Who is America? What does it mean to be an American? How do we honor those who came before us? Who will America be in the future? INTERSECTIONS Festival addresses these provocative and deeply personal questions through an offering of artistic exploration and discovery that is absolutely exhilarating!

Throughout the festival, you will see works that are ethnically, racially, culturally, and stylistically diverse. So much so, that it is profound to find many common threads amongst the performances. Of course, America is a nation of immigrants. Whether they were forced here through slavery or they came by choice in search of new opportunities and independence, America is nation of people living along artistic and cultural continuums that links them from their own country of ethnic origin to their current home in America. In this Festival, you will learn about Austria, Southeast DC, the ghettos of Philadelphia, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Haiti, Philippines, the Ibo People of West Africa, Asia, and the Middle East through song, dance, spoken word, hip hop, and theater performances.

As the only community-based performing arts center in DC, the Atlas is the perfect venue to host a festival of this magnitude and significance. Located in a historic movie theatre, the Atlas opened its doors in November 2006 and since opening, has helped to revitalize the H Street Corridor, which was devastated by the riots of 1968. Part of its mission is to foster the artistic growth of professional and aspiring performing artists throughout the region. It is home to a diverse group of locally renowned theatre and dance companies, symphony orchestras, choral groups and arts education programs. In fact, several Atlas resident companies, such as the Capital City Symphony, Joy of Motion Dance Center and the Levine School of Music, are a part of the Festival.

Thank you for joining us today! We invite you to stay and see more performances!

Enjoy!
Jacqueline Lawton, Dramaturg